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place that some. of our designs. syria successfully destroys all of its chemical weapons production facility is a day ahead of schedule but reports continue to say that it's about rebel point is using toxic all of it. all to my slick like a sport for a tropical beach holiday. it's there's nothing really bad about here fathers is more like a living hell and. they. struggle and it's forced into a tube into on those as you know he's latest report from inside guantanamo bay prison the allegations of torture and abuse as officials try to convince the outside world that the inmates are doing just fine that plan. one is called. nine eleven to prevent nine eleven in the wake of nine eleven twelve days
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a tragedy american officials are tools to keep using september the eleventh as they justification for expanding surveillance. abroad. this is all she coming to live from moscow and welcome to the program and a fast breaking news on all see fierce clashes have erupted in the capital police used tear gas to disperse thousands of precise is gathered in central rome to demand better social housing the demonstration turned violent up to police officers trying to push back protesters who are tanks and on the vine they were reportedly trying to break through a police barricade and he is pepper spray against officers as well as throwing free . and other objects one policeman was reportedly injured protests for more social
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housing and against evictions have started in many cities across italy and of course we'll keep you updated on this developing story throughout the hour in the meantime breaking news as our see. thousands around the town and parliament to demand better housing and these are the latest pictures of from a central role right now for you here on earth she will keep you posted of course. all of the facilities used to produce chemical weapons have been destroyed a day ahead of it's being seen as a major step under the russian american brokered deal to raise your air of its stockpile of toxic arms by the middle of twenty fourteen policy and how small. what we're hearing now from an official inside the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is that damascus has destroyed all equipment that is used for producing mixing and filling chemical weapons this comes
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a day ahead of the agreed november first deadline and it is a major achievement in an extremely tight and ambitious disarmament program the foreign inspectors who have been inside the country for several weeks now have visited twenty one out of twenty three chemical weapons stockpile sites now the reason given as to why they could not go to two of those scientists because it was simply too dangerous there's been no commitment from the rebels fighting that they will ensure the safety of these inspectors but we have been told that these stockpiles at those two sites were moved to sites that the inspectors did in fact investigate the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says it is extremely satisfied with the way this disarmament program has gone ahead and that all is on track for the final deadline which is the middle of next year by when syria will have destroyed all of its chemical weapons stockpiles we're receiving reports that earlier this week rebels carried out an attack in which they allegedly
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used chemical weapons in the north east of the country near the turkish border now it happened near a check post of kurdish defense forces and according to those forces immediately following the explosion of a shell there was yellow smoke they also say that they are suffering from symptoms of chemical in hell ation and more the russian foreign ministry is calling for an urgent investigation and says it is extremely worrying that this incident is not receiving why disparate coverage. and right now i'm joined live by homage to. former commander of the british military is chemical defense regiment mr gresham gordon welcome to also you thanks for joining us here so how important is the step that was achieved today for the whole process of design in syria. it's very important that the ability to make chemical weapons out of precursors. is to be taken away from the regime but as you report and. there are two sites that
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are in rebel held areas that have not been visited although it's believed that those sites do not tell you any chemical weapons it's still wash or i think another important piece that you mentioned earlier on is the support of the opposition if your position do not support the ongoing toss to remove all chemical weapons from syria that is going to be currently difficult to achieve. if i just went right but how does the infighting in syria affect the work of inspectors because there are many skeptics who say it's impossible to fulfill this mission because of the civil war that well it's very challenging you would appear that some of the stockpiles are in rebel held areas and it will require local six laws and their support to enable them to gather all the chemical weapons together probably into one place to either destroy them in syria which i think would be very difficult given time frame
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or actually move them to a third country and now is being talked about at the moment receiving those chemicals to destroy them or even the russian federation or the usa in a war zone as it is it's going to be incredibly challenging the timelines set by the u.n. if all science and support syria has been given and till the middle of twenty eight fourteen to get rid of all of its chemical weapons is it possible is it a viable deadline. well i think it it in theory yes it's a viable deadline we think there are about one thousand three hundred tons of chemical weapons certainly we know facilities like the u.s. know while facility can destroy up to twenty tons per day that for about three months they could be destroyed but that is for getting calls or not appreciation fully this is during a civil war was involved with destroying chemical weapons in iraq rice two thousand
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and three and post two thousand and three but that was not during the civil war so it is possible but the addition of the various opposing forces in syria and the fact that there is a war going on makes it cute cheap challenging if all solid studio support the un and the c.w. in this venture. how dangerous is the process of destroying chemical alms for the local people and environment. the actual process of destroying it is. in the great scheme of things not that dangerous it's like destroying any toxic chemicals i wonder if it was done in a local environment in syria. during. a civil war then yes it could become very dangerous that some of these chemicals get out into the environment but i'm sure the plans that the permanent farai looking out at the moment ought to centralise those chemicals either in syria but more likely outside
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syria and half of them destroyed in a third country and that's got to be crossing the only viable option this station do it in the country during the civil war would be a great danger to the local population and it would be very difficult to do it in the timeframe the u.n. has set right bretton gordon former commander of the british military is chemical defense regiment mr preston gordon thank you very much indeed for your time weapon educated. the tough task of chemical designer mint is discussed later today in worlds apart oksana boyko talks to a renowned expert on chemical weapons and asks why are the ambitious goals in syria are achievable and here's a quick preview. i would like to use your a technical expertise and ask you this question how easy it is for non-state actors for rebel groups to produce those types of chemicals in an artisan the way the
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production of blistering nerve agents is actually not very difficult their recipes on the web site on the web sites on the web. we know that in the. terrorist group in japan in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. they produced actually a homemade kind of do it yourself serenading very similar to what's being used in syria to the. an american base human rights organization of sound what it calls systematic violations of gun tunnel bay prison it's calling for the immediate closure of the facility even though washington insists everything by is fine he's in a sissy churkin i went to the infamous prison herself to see what it's really like there and here is the latest in her c result reports. one time tomorrow every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the beast that holds america's most scandalous prison
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no one likes to be spit on no one wants to have their own torture hunger strikes and suicides have marred this place since two thousand and two and they're human beings after all they're there's no reason to expect that they enjoy being here you know we pretend otherwise prisoners held indefinitely in the name of the never ending war on terror whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right now we have the court system determined that in just over a decade a total of seven hundred seventy nine prisoners the majority released without charges today one hundred sixty four remain over half of them cleared for release but still kept locked up. on the other side of the barbed wire. life is a blast. furnace of water and ice there's nothing really bad about here just like any common american town scared to come here but i mean it's absolutely beautiful place when you get around other stuff getting around the other stuff is
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not hard a lot of what goes on here is kept under a thick veil of denial and secrecy delta house is a hospital and library and this is also a place where patients are force fed and even though the hunger strike is largely and officially said to be over we know that at least fifteen people are continually being force fed here today a tube is passed down through a person's nostril and pushed all the way down to their stomach before it's passed down the nose we lubricated and we give the patient a choice do they want to have the key which is the agent. area or if they want to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of the will. in fact some of our patients are so used to this they will. described which nostril they want this while major world medical bodies are in agreement that for speeding is not ethical and should
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not be practiced the force feeding them i've got my clients of experience to guantanamo they've certainly described the storage or the restraint chair that they're strapped into they actually call the torture chair never force feeding takes up to forty five minutes and is performed twice a day the patients that had the civilian world have said it feel strange i've never heard of. i have not heard that good move fishes are beyond nonchalant about the highly criticized practice you might feel differently from the way i might feel it uncomfortable has been the most of it i have heard but they don't even believe in what this thing anyway because they know it sounds stupid i volunteer that the procedure be demonstrated on me requested the prisoners who've not met one another and speak different languages keep saying the same thing that we were tortured used . to the chair legs to the ground. strap across and they forced in a tube into our noses never in thirteen years have detainees been allowed to speak
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directly to a journalist while remaining at get most only leaking statements through lawyers they would love nothing more than to sit down with journalist and just tell them you know about their daily lives but communicating seems to only occur here if someone was a point where maybe they had been verbalizing a lot of hopelessness we were immediately intervening and trying to assist that person to make sure that there wasn't any thoughts of maybe wanting to harm themselves or in their lives with charts like these often used to pinpoint patients despair you asked them how do you feel right now and they'll be able to point to it we have not had a patient in this area. thank heavens meanwhile six suicides and dozens of suicide attempts have taken place at the detention facility we haven't seen any autopsies the u.s. government hasn't released any formal reports or findings we're now inside two active camps at guantanamo camp five old single cells where the so-called less
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compliant detainees are held camp number six is one filled with communal cells when officials deem the detainees to behave better there will be ordered by being allowed to live in groups while detainees are kept away from us what we witness are clean empty prison cells with cozy pajamas colgate toothpaste and maximum security shampoos paraded in front of journalists as proof everything is so much better here than any silly horror stories we all have heard and forty one ton of cuba. and we're trying to shed some light on what is actually going on inside got tunnel every week he has a new report from inside the infamous detention center for. edward snowden's revelations about the n.s.a. has seen the u.s. intelligence bosses go to great lengths to justify their activities officially they've been told to use nine eleven as their main argument according to a document leaks in the media and some politicians are happy to follow that advice
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what i want to tell you about is how did we get here nine eleven crowded nine eleven we had no way of connecting those dots what section two fifteen does is allow the government to connect the dots these dots should have and likely could have been connected to prevent nine eleven many of these reform proposals run the risk of recreating the type of cumbersome over lawyer pfizer regime that proved so inadequate in the wake of nine eleven one incident was called nine eleven that should never happen again. the attitude of the u.s. intelligence community indicates a reluctance to reforms as american interest political analyst eric draitser. to intrust the scene bureaucrats like clapper and others who have been caught lying publicly on the record to congress and to other policymakers and officials about
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the nature of these programs about what the united states is doing about its very operations in the most public sense of the word and so we are to intrust these people with some kind of an internal review it is laughable it is just about as laughable as wall street banks regulating themselves. on the techniques used by the n.s.a. are being revealed as a reporter and the washington post shows the agency has been harvesting huge amounts of data from google and yahoo by breaking into that communication links and they say leaked a sketch from an internal presentation shows how the n.s.a. intercepts google traffic by topping into the company's dates a cable's millions of records are collected in this way on a daily basis as part of a program code named muscular and the n.s.a. engineers enjoy what they're doing if the smiley face is anything to go by here and to get a clearer idea of what these doodles mean check out dot com and also the man behind
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all those leaks is now adding his keep that three months after being wrong to sign him here in russia edward snowden finds a job details coming up in just a few minutes. well. science technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've gone to the future covered.
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if you. believe. this is all sea welcome by edward snowden is no longer unemployed the n.s.a. whistleblower has called temporary asylum in russia may start a new job as early as tomorrow and just like the previous one it will make use of his computer skills but there will be no status secrets this time around he has today's health warning to and i thought he could be a lawyer who's also been representing edward snowden in russia the former n.s.a.
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contractor will start working for a major russian web site in the am or so possibly even as soon as tomorrow in this department of technical support mr katrina didn't specify which web site exactly we do know that earlier russia's largest social networks gone back to offer him a job as a security specialist so we don't know whether or not snowden will actually be going to work or would he be doing it from form since his exact location is still unknown due to security reasons. and of course there are always more stories on our website on dot com including taking on how we got the story of why officials at one russian city are trying to scare people all the spooky holiday the full details are in our news section for you and also that a full on going to entire persona has saved the lives of a u.s. soldier and finally gets an american fees or up to get as of trying because of
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concern the tiny ban might seek revenge you have got the story of the man who made it all possible online. want to know your life the new knowledge base your life your. pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. today i roll the suturing. germany's thriving economy may well be driving the rest of europe down the u.s. treasury report suggests the continent is suffering from a trade imbalance caused by a flood of exports from germany but talk of building orchestrating the e.u.'s
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policies is nothing new it recently persuaded brussels to delay a limit on emissions to save the revenues of its own auto industry loris miss now explains. with friends like these who needs enemies david cameron for all his bluster would fall prefer to negotiate with the e.u. the need it all together and germany and merkel is the linchpin that holds the entire project together and yet these two countries that are reportedly cutting a secret deal to protect their main industries again e.u. regulations it's a tit for tat thing britain is proposing to support germany's to delay the introduction of a cap on carbon dioxide emissions which will harm b.m.w. mercedes an audi and in return britain seeking germany's help to protect the banking sector from the ways of brussels regulations the proposed deal may also
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include asking for germany's help to a cap on bankers' bonuses something the tory party is controversy against the tide of public opinion but it's not just germany and britain practically every member has something to complain about belgian farmers the rain gates milk pricing policies spain is unhappy with fishing reforms others criticised sky high budget contributions red tape and bailouts whether it's contributing to them or punishing economic regimes imposed after receiving them all combined to undermine the project but now that two of the unions most powerful members appeared to be commuting to defy the rules of the organization it looks like dissatisfaction has hit a whole new level. and barbara cohn directional the austrian economics editor
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told us the e.u. is a rope around its neck. it could be definitely the beginning of a trend because brussels again has grown too far if we just look at how many regulations called as memoir rund or directives go out every month by brussels and they harm national economies they harm national competitiveness one size fits all politics that have been tried to pursue do not work we have seen this during the so-called financial crisis the euro crisis obviously it does not work and this is what we see now it finally becomes clear that this big picture of big brussels definitely hurts the national interests. are you beeston down by corporations and striving to survive in the modern economy today's kaiser report is just for you that. you know it takes all the running you can do to keep it in
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the same place. it's all the produce you could do to keep it in the same place. it's exam the working you can do to keep in the same place the near future threats to the jobs you have to work for a living but out of. the running printing working but it also takes all the borrowing stealing of the fraud exploiting and dying. and taking to stay in the same place is on the road stacey. and just a reminder of our breaking news story this hour fierce clashes in the italian capital right now police used tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters gathered in central rome to demand better social housing and we're bringing you the latest pictures from rome right now where the anti austerity demonstration turned violent after police officers tried to push back protesters. and armored
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a van they were reportedly trying to break through a police barricade and used pepper spray against officers as well as throwing fruit and other objects two policemen were reportedly injured for more social housing and against it have taken place in many cities across italy and these are this is the breaking news here on our see where thousands surround central of rome and the parliament in particular to demand better housing there of course we'll bring you more throughout the day today. now some other world news a brief this hour pakistan's rest of province of the baluchistan has been rocked by a deadly blast four people have been killed and nineteen injured after a bomb rigged to a bicycle went off in a busy area in the city it's not known who carried out that time but the region is known for deadly sick towering violence with militants often targeting members of
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the shia minority. the bodies of ninety two migrants who'd been traveling from nice rare to algeria have been found in the desert they died from dehydration when their vehicles broke down close to the border more than half of the victims were children part of the group did manage to make a bike and inform rescuers every year thousands cross this part of the sahara to reach the north african coast and then travel illegally to europe. because state of california hundreds gathered for another protest over the recent killing of a thirteen year old boy by police until lopez an eighth grader was gunned down last tuesday with seven bullets because he was carrying a replica of an assault rifle shots as demanded the officer responsible of all that trying to be brought to justice and called for a transparent to the best occasion. and coming up here on else he came through the gender barrier which take it to a ukrainian martial arts training camp with
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a difference. the office of civil rights in the city of seattle washington has told city employees that certain terms may not be used in official emails and discussions according to google fox news these terms would be brown bag and citizen ninety nine percent of americans when they hear the expression brown bag think of taking a nice healthy lunch you know in a brown paper bag to work with themselves but in politically correct insanity land these words are an obvious reminder of the days when a person's skin color was compared to a brown paper bag to determine race well if any were even remotely linked to an
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incident of racism needs to be banned then we've got to get rid of the war blanket because they gave the native americans disease still blankets to kill them and they block their land with beads so we've got to get rid of that word to remember the separate drinking fountains and segregated buses based on race in america yes so we can't say those words anymore either or we might just possibly remember something bad which could lead to the ultimate horror of the modern western world unpleasant thoughts we see the lot of western countries the term citizen becoming offensive because it makes resident foreigners legal or. illegal feel like second class people well compared to actual citizens legally you kind of are if you're offended that you are not treated as a citizen of seattle why not also might become a citizen the old states join the team but that's just my opinion.
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